Twin Peaks Blu-Ray: What To Expect?

It’s official! Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery Blu-ray will be released worldwide on July 29, 2014. Pre-orders are available in the U.S. and Europe and we’ve answered your frequently asked questions in a world of Blu-ray. This post was originally published in July 2013 and continuously updated throughout the past year. It’s been quite a ride, but nearly every speculation and rumor about the Blu-ray turned out to be true. And then some!

Everything below was written before the official announcement of Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery on May 15, 2014:

Like Laura Palmer’s double life, it’s no secret to us that Twin Peaks is coming to Blu-ray. Since 2011, co-creator Mark Frost has repeatedly confirmed that a Blu-ray release was in progress, hinting several times at the possible inclusion of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Meand its deleted scenes. Recently, Bill Hunt from The Digital Bits said that multiple sources have indeed confirmed that the imminent Twin Peaks Blu-ray will not just include the complete series but the prequel movie as well.

UPDATE #1: This article has been refreshed with recent information provided to Welcome to Twin Peaks by John Berge of Videomagasinet. More details in the “UPDATES” below and this is still unconfirmed by the main distributor, but in short: potential March 26, 2014 release of Twin Peaks – The Entire Mystery with deleted scenes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me on 9 Blu-ray discs!

When: Twin Peaks Blu-ray Release Date

If it’s not a question about if, then when will the BD be released? 03/27/2014 would be a brilliant release date for the Twin Peaks Blu-ray since, at least according to my calculations, that’s exactly 25 years after Laura Palmer tells Dale Cooper she’ll see him again in 25 years. And what a great opportunity for a newly filmed epilogue starring Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee in The Black Lodge, right? Right?!

UPDATE: According to the pre-order page on Amazon France, the Blu-ray will be released June 11, 2014! The pre-order page for Twin Peaks – L’intégrale (two seasons and the movie on Region B/2 with original and French audio) has been removed again.

Still rumored: Paramount Australia to release Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery (Limited Edition) on April 30th 2014. Only 1700 copies and just the series, not the movie.

What: Twin Peaks Blu-ray Content

Let’s be a bit more realistic. What can we expect from this upcoming Twin Peaks Blu-ray release?

Both seasons of Twin Peaks and the movie in crystal clear 1080p of course. Right now, the best HD quality version of Twin Peaks is available for purchase via iTunes only: season 1, season 2.

Now that Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is rumored to be included, the biggest “question in a world of Blu-ray” is obviously: will this release include the 45 minutes of deleted scenes? Frost stated earlier this year that lawyers were on it. But it’s not only a legal matter. As we’ve seen with the Blue Velvet Blu-ray, David Lynch will never release deleted scenes unless they look and sound absolutely beautiful. In my imagination, Lynch is happily working on that. Right. Now.

UPDATE: In Fox-Paramount’s promotional image, the preliminary cover art for Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery suggests the inclusion of “the missing pieces” and shows a red sticker with “deleted scenes from Fire Walk with Me.” I believe the word you’re looking for is: BINGO!

Even though most fans probably own it already, bonus material (in high definition) from previous releases would really make this a complete collection.

The Return to Twin Peaks documentary about the Twin Peaks Fest included in the Gold Box edition was a great watch, but Jason Deehr made an epic compilation of some of the fest’s best moments especially for the 20th edition of the festival. I think it deserves a place on a Twin Peaks BD release as well.

What else do you think should be included with the Twin Peaks Blu-Ray release? And what should the packaging look like? Let your imagination go wild and put your ideas in the comments. Here’s Emre Unayli‘s packaging design for Twin Peaks: The Definitive Blu Box Edition. This is not the official box art. Hat tips to Joey, Shawn, Bill and John!

The images show a normal-sized plastic BD case (which is great because I’ve seen up to six discs fitting snugly inside one normal-sized plastic BD case) but also shows a cardboard sleeve with what looks like a cardboard fold-out case.

Is there any official word on what the packaging will be? Either way, I’ll buy it but cardboard box sets really suck. They take up an unnecessary amount of room and they’re perishable whereas the plastic cases last forever (and if they get damaged, you can easily get another one).

Also should include the deleted scenes from the series. And the Coffee commercials. And the Cannes cut of Fire walk with me. Was a different cut than the mainstream release. With more train car and other things.

Log Lady Intros. #amiright? Could those possibly be remastered to a better quality than in the Gold Box? (I think the answer is no.) And holy cow, both season’s soundtracks, and I would pee all over myself if we could get a physical copy of the Twin Peaks Anthology. OH, and options to turn on / off the “Previously on Twin Peaks…” and any commercials that may exist out there. Yeah. I want all those things. But if I could get FWWM and the series in a really, really clean 1080 with deleted scenes, it would make my year.

Better be in the originally shot Aspect Ratio. Unless they did a hybrid as some early shows did before the HDTV days. Stretching it to 16X9 is by no means acceptable/ Neither is Pan and Scan in any form.

After the two-hour pilot aired on ABC, I believe it was Entertainment Weekly that published a two-page chart/diagram of “who’s who” with lines to show relationships. We didn’t know these characters yet and it was very confusing to try and keep track of all that. FInding and including that chart would be very cool!

I would rather have a separate Blue-Ray disc like recent documentaries for FRIDAY THE 13TH, HALLOWEEN and ELM STREET franchises, 4 hour documentary interviewing all those involved in both the series and movie and track the series and movie in chronological order. Also bonus extras.

For FIRE WALK WITH ME, include outtakes, photo archives, I have video footage of the first TP Festival when New Line was promoting the film. I also have a good share of stills I shot while they were shooting, including some from scenes that were cut. I submitted some to the French company that was supposed to release them on DVD special edition (not sure if that ever actually came out as they were trying to get the cut scenes to include, but that didnt happen). Anyone have that DVD? Was there any stills of cut scenes on it? They owe me a disc

We have to see these FWWM deleted scenes… All those legal matters, Lynch’s stubbornness and so on and so on are getting ridiculous already… Every 2 years there are new releases, new editions full with a kind of bullshit documentaries… whats the point? Make one release with s1, s2, FWWM and all deleted scenes and stop playing around…

Peeling back the layers of mystery and darkness. This photo is an accurate representation of the town/series of Twin Peaks. Hopefully a new generation of viewers will see this and take the series to the next level. And that next level should be Season 3 on Netflix. This show needs a conclusion. We’ve been waiting 20 years for an ending. Perhaps this Blu-Ray will be the beginning of that movement. Perhaps “It is happening again.”

Yeah, that cover art is an abomination. Let’s hope they use some original artwork or just go with the bend in the road and Twin Peaks sign from the intro. No need to “update” it for a 2014 audience. Keep it original like the show itself.

No cardboard in the packaging either I say. Standard BD case with inserts to hold all the discs. If one case won’t do it, make it two cases.

No offense but I want the BluRay to be about the best presentation of the show. Crappy mangled photoshop because the studio won’t pay for or treat the original ArtWork properly is an insult to the fans tat have kept this show alive enough to even warrant a BD release 30 years later.

I have to say I love the packaging designed by Emre Unayli shown above. I wish this were the official design. It’s evocative, atmospheric, subtle and I love those silvery hues on the front cover and the discs.
By contrast, the design at the top of the page is cartoonish and juvenile. (In fact it reminds me of something I painted for an art class when I was 15). I do hope it’s just a promo image and not the final packaging. TP deserves better.

I do wish to point out that there will be sections of season 2 that will likely be Standard Def (off the top of my head, the scene with Wyndom Earle and Audrey in the library, for example) because they were not even remastered from film in the previous boxset. The composites (e.g. the owl flying at the camera at the end of one episode) was also still from a video master, but perhaps CBS will do as they did with Star Trek: The Next Generation and recomposite all the film elements for that.

The art design done by Emre Unayli is actually quite decent, but the one at the top of the page is hideous.
Let’s just hope the official art design will be at least a little bit better than the Gold Box, that was terrible and tacky.

And yes, I hope they’ll include the “Previously on Twin Peaks” and “Next week on Twin Peaks”. Let’s have the whole thing goddamnit!! lol

The Phil Donahue show had an episode with the cast from Twin Peaks after the hysteria of the first season hit. I have never seen this available on any previous release. Is this a possibility on the blu ray collection?

I started watching Twin Peaks for the first time a few weeks ago and have just finished watching Fire Walk With Me. What a fantastic show this was and such a shame it was axed before its time, much like Laura Palmer herself.

I cannot wait to get my hands on this Blu Ray set and what’s more, I’ll make sure the DVDs go to a good home.

dvd regions and bluray regions are NOT the same thing. a region 2 dvd from france would like be a region B bluray. the difference is important as the countries included in the regions for dvd vs bluray are very, very different.

I pre-ordered this from online retailer “Zavvi” and it was due to be released yesterday according to their website. My order status, as of yesterday, still read: “Awaiting Stock Pick”, so I queried this and they informed me that the actual release date is December 1st. I’m quite glad I didn’t go ahead and purchase a blu-ray player before finding this out as TP is the only reason I was going to get one anyway.

i think they’re just playing with us. They’ve been hyping this Blu Ray release for years now. Then this year they started to suggest that even the FWWM deleted scenes will be added as part of the package.. we had Lynch shooting something in the beginning of the year then Ray Wise spilled all the beans and everybody’s saying it’s happening but yet again we have no official date so it’s not happening and i’m sure if the title was going to be released this summer then it would be definitely on the pre-order section. They’re only trying to keep the level of interest intact so then when it will be actually released in 5 or even 10 years time hopefully people will buy it.
I have been hearing the TP Blu Ray release for at least 5 years now.. and i have always wondered why the Blu Ray of FWWM is so crap (regarding of the region code)!! They’re only milking us fans at this point.

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